General Information

Domain independent planning is a thriving area of research in both
Europe and the US, encompassing an increasingly diverse range of
techniques and approaches. Although domain independent planning has been a
lively area of academic research for many years, the resulting technology has
had few large scale applications in the industrial and commercial sectors. An
important barrier to their use has been
the need to acquire planning expertise before it is possible to be an effective
user.

That remains true, so in 2002 there will be another summer school, similar
in structure but covering different topics from all parts of planning.

The school will bring together subject experts, from several countries in
Europe and America, in order to introduce the broad range of current planning
approaches and to consider ways of developing and exploiting these to make
planning a realistically usable tool for complex problem-solving.

The school is aimed at PhD students and young researchers in academia and
industry. In order to ensure the success of the school it has been decided to
restrict registrations.